Offerings & Events
Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.
In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit
We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.
Creative Healers Hub
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Drawing from Dreams
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Step into the mysterious realm of dreams through an art-based exploration of your inner world. Guided by art therapist Angela Amos, this workshop invites you to explore an art-based dream interpretation process through guided meditation, surprise images, and written self-reflection. BYOD (Bring Your Own Dreams)
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
Shelterwood Winter Solstice Celebration
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
As the light wanes and we near the longest night, Shelterwood Collective members are invited to gather to celebrate the turning of the year together.
Good Grief
A healing space to share and process your grief. All types of loss are welcome. Drawing from the creative arts, drama therapy, ritual, and somatic practices, this 6-week, in person group container offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.
Navigating Closeness: Guiding Interpersonal Proximity & Intrapersonal Depth in Session
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Getting Closer to Clients, Getting Clients Closer to Themselves: Navigating Interpersonal Proximity & Intrapersonal Depth & in Session is a workshop with Shelley Green and Corrina Skildum, exploring not only the interventions for flexible movement, but also use experiential methods to notice our own internal experience. What comes up for us as we move towards the client, or the client moves towards themselves? In what ways might we “surface” the client, or bring them into the “there and then” to alleviate our own discomfort?
Return to the Table
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Return to the Table is a 10-week experiential and communal journey with grief, where weekly sessions help participants build a practice that transforms their relationship with grief using emotional processing and food-centered rituals.
Skillshare Workshop: CNM & Polyamory Affirming Therapy
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
Increase your CNM- and polyamory-affirming skills with a focus on marginalized experiences and common concerns presented in couples and individual therapy.
Greenhouse: Bookkeeping & Taxes
HYBRID | FOR MEMBERS
Greenhouse is an experiential business development workshop for healing practitioners. Our January workshop will offer best practices for bookkeeping to set you off to a good start in 2026 and orient you to the terrain of tax filing for small businesses.
Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 1
FOR PRACTITIONERS
Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma. This workshop helps you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US - this workshop will engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies- regardless of religious or non-religious status. Learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.
Improv for Stress
In person
This event is for anyone looking to learn about themselves and get out of their head. Build more confidence, form new connections, and cultivate collaboration in the context of playful, spontaneous interactions. It’s great for practicing flexibility and sitting with ambiguity in a safe setting.
Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 2
FOR PRACTITIONERS
Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma. This workshop helps you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US - this workshop will engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies- regardless of religious or non-religious status. Learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.
Kinnected: Facilitated Support Group for BIPOC Folks
FOR BIPOC | VIRTUAL
Kinnected is a virtual support group for BIPOC folks to learn tools and practices to heal while being in relationship with others. This group is for people who are interested in deepening their relational skills by learning in community with other BIPOC folks from across the U.S. The group will run for 4 - 6 weeks.
A Dash of Madness: Introduction to Human Narcissism
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This workshop explores the unconscious roots of narcissism from a psychoanalytic perspective, highlighting how narcissistic patterns arise as coping mechanisms across all backgrounds. Participants will examine the societal and internal forces that drive narcissistic behavior, along with the roles of neglect, trauma, and shame. The workshop aims to deepen clinical insight and offer alternative approaches to healing and self-awareness.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Skillshare Workshop: Navigating Erotic Counter/Transference
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This seminar invites therapists into an embodied and ethical exploration of erotic countertransference—examining how identity, power, and culture shape these experiences, and how to meet them with curiosity, integrity, and care.
The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore how first relationships inform how we move through the world. Learn how we can support and shift these early imprints in the therapeutic dynamic. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.
Art Walk | Small Reverences | Calley E. Morrison
Please join us in The Apothecary for Art Walk featuring weavings from Calley E. Morrison.
Greenhouse: Working on Your Practice
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Greenhouse is a business development offering for healing practitioners designed to foster connection, collaboration, and skill-building. These experiential workshops offer an opportunity to locate your entrepreneurial identity, development business acumen, and actualize an aligned and thriving practice.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
Death Cafe
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.
Altar Workshop
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join us on Saturday, November 15, from 3 - 4p in The Apothecary for an Altar Workshop guided by Kat Larson. Together, we will explore self-awareness and self-love, and discuss how we can all feel safe and worthy as we turn our attention inward and view the altar as self.
Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Skillshare- Witnessing: Attuning to BIPOC Nervous Systems
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
Join Tolu and Gitika for this month’s lunch-and-learn style workshop focused on centering and attuning to the BIPOC experience in our current moment. Tolu and Gitika will share from their lived experiences and labor as mental health professionals; and offer a nervous-system aware practice that supports true healing and liberation in solidarity with BIPOC peoples.
Creative Healers Hub
The Creative Healers Hub is a monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
The Body of the Therapist
An offering for therapists. Therapists’ body and the container they hold. In this offering you will be guided through somatic parts work. Tending to the soma through yoga and your internal landscape.
The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Passions with D. Michael Louderback, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.
Art Walk | Small Reverences | Calley E. Morrison
Please join us Thursday, November 6 from 5-8p in The Apothecary for Art Walk featuring weavings from Calley E. Morrison.
Full Moon Circle ~ The Full Moon in Taurus
Virtual
This gathering offers us time for sacred pause and connection – to the cycles of the moon, the rhythms of the earth, to our ancestors, community and soul/self. Alexa will guide us into the energy of November’s Full Moon in Taurus and its corresponding tarot card, the Hierophant.
Somatic Cacao Circle
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.
Resource Share: Health Insurance for Us
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Navigating health insurance as a small business owner can feel overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to be. Join Cindy Hagen for practical guidance, resources, and a Q&A to help you explore your coverage options with confidence.
Harvest Shared Meal
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
As the wheel of the year turns from autumn toward winter, we invite our members to gather for a cozy potluck dinner. Come share food, stories, and connection as we celebrate the harvest season together.
Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop
VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE
Led by couples therapist Angel Thomson, the Hold Me Tight® Workshop offers a research-backed, 2-day weekend immersive program based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples deepen emotional intimacy, rebuild trust, and improve communication. In a safe, supportive space, you’ll learn practical tools to move from frustration and misunderstanding to connection and security in your relationship.
Somatic Chiropractic Demo
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Led by Somatic Chiropractor and Nervous System Educator Susanna Bergin, this workshop will address the physiological aspects of nervous system regulation, as well as the visible physical markers that practitioners can implement in their tracking of clients immediately. Through an experiential container, you’ll learn how to track signs of nervous system dysregulation, when to refer, and how to utilize co-regulation.
Creative Healers Hub
The Creative Healers Hub is a monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.
Chrysanthemum Crawl: An Artful Saturday
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
Celebrate fall with the Chrysanthemum Crawl: An Artful Saturday in Pioneer Square. Stroll through local galleries, collect chrysanthemums, and enjoy a day of art, color, and seasonal charm. Bring a vase to create your own autumn bouquet!
Collective Wisdom: Community as Medicine with Gitika Talwar & Ellen Cline
HYBRID | FOR EVERYONE
An community exploration of how healing expands when we move beyond the one-on-one into shared, collective spaces. Together with Gitika Talwar and Ellen Kline, we’ll engage in dialogue, reflection, and collaboration around the practices and possibilities of communal connection for resilience and resistance.
Rooted Reflections Tarot
IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE
A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.
Skillshare: Reclaiming Self-Energy: A Path Beyond Clinician Burnout
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
Guided by fellow member Angelica De Anda, LMHC, this lunch-and-learn style workshop explores how burnout takes root and offers pathways of restoration through self-energy, nervous system regulation, and the practices of rest. Together we’ll uncover ways to sustain our work while honoring our own vitality and connection.
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated!
IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Seattle Therapists Get Caffeinated! has been running since Fall 2022 on a monthly basis on Fridays. Sandra Killebrew and Chessie Snider alternate hosting the event. We'll meet at Victrola on 15th from 10am-12pm. Please say hi and introduce yourself!
The Clinic: Nervous Systems & Somatics with Smruti Desai, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Smruti Desai, LMHC, we will explore the nervous system and its role in regulation, trauma recovery, attachment, rest, and joy. This clinic will explore advanced techniques for working with the nervous system, how to hold a somatically attuned relational space, and how to support your clients in achieving awareness of their somatic processes to help them find more ease and capacity for themselves and their relationships with other humans and the world.
Writing While Tender | Creative Accountability
A drop-in virtual writing class facilitated by Sofiya Ko, licensed counselor and expressive arts therapist, Writing While Tender is a trauma-aware container where personal experience will be gently guided into expressive writing.